TAKATOSH ROCK PAINTINGS
2024-10-22 08:05:00 / News
In the Jizzakh oasis, the first rock paintings were found in the second half of the 50s of the last century at the Takatash location in the Saykhonsoy gorge of Morguzar mountain.
In this gallery of rock paintings, there are various wild animals - deer, arhar (mountain goat), leopard, bears; from domestic animals, images of horses, dogs, people, archers shooting, hunting them in a crowd, religious ceremonies are depicted (Muhammadjonov, 1957, p.16). In the 1970s and 1980s, specialists in the field continued research in Saykhonsoy, as a result of which a complex of rock paintings consisting of more than 630 plots was discovered in this wonderful valley.